On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:51:56AM -0500, Peter Johansson wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> Bob Rossi wrote: >>> >>> I was wondering if there is an incremental make install command? (my >>> make install doesn't appear to be incremental, should it be?) >> >> No, a Makefile's install target normally just contains a series of >> commands for installing everything, without checking if it exists >> first. If the install target depends on anything, it's usually >> basic top-level targets like 'all'. There's no technology limit that >> prevents us from making it incremental. All you'd have to do is write >> a rule for every file that gets installed, and make the install target >> depend on all of them. Tedious to do by hand, but automake is good at >> doing such things for you. >> > There is an item in the not yet released Automake NEWS that I guess is > related to this: > > - install-sh supports -C, which does not update the installed file > (and its time stamps) if the contents did not change. > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=automake.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=6fcc1a535b0bbab7333230d780fde8f194836131;hb=HEAD
O, very nice. I think I'll beta test that for you guys. Do you happen to know how a user could get that feature working off the top of your head? make install -C ? If not, I'll have to play around with it. Thanks, Bob Rossi
